Gary Cahill has claimed Chelsea's players looked like they had 'one eye' on the FA Cup final during their dire 3-0 defeat at Newcastle United on Sunday.

The Blues put in a dreadful performance at St James' Park as they were easily beaten through a Dwight Gayle header and a brace from Ayoze Perez.

It really doesn't bode well for the FA Cup final against Manchester United on Saturday evening as the Blues were well below-par with Antonio Conte even stating that they would definitely lose if they played like that at Wembley.

But Cahill believes Saturday might have effected the players and that some could have been concentrating on the final rather than the last match of the 2017/18 Premier League season.

"It's time to self-reflect. Prior to Huddersfield we were in great form. We have to try and brush it under the carpet," Cahill told Chelsea's official website.

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"That's not an excuse, any other time I wouldn't be saying that, but we have a massive week now to prepare for a cup final which is very important for us.

"It was a below-par performance by ourselves. For whatever reason, we were way off the pace.

"There were individual mistakes here, there and everywhere which was putting us under extreme amounts of pressure. That's not in our make-up.

"It looked to me like everyone had one eye on the cup final, which is very dangerous.

"We are very lucky that the game was somewhat irrelevant in the end as Liverpool won, because if we had come off that pitch with that performance having thrown a Champions League spot away, it would have been extremely hard to take."